Any reason to get Glock PMAGs over factory mags?

[TruthTellers]

Now if factory mags were $45, different story.

They are for those single stack .380's and 9mm's. Why nobody makes good pmags for guns like the Ruger LC9 or S&W M&P Shield or others beats me. That's a market that could use $15 mags when the normal price seems to be always be $40 or more.

 

[Warp]

They are for those single stack .380's and 9mm's. Why nobody makes good pmags for guns like the Ruger LC9 or S&W M&P Shield or others beats me. That's a market that could use $15 mags when the normal price seems to be always be $40 or more.

PMAG is of course a brand name specific to Magpul. Magpul makes all kinds of stuff...huge assortment of products...and they seem to add to it all the time.

But you have to realize Magpul is all in on polymers, and my understanding is basically that it's not so easy (even possible) to use polymer to make a magazine that fits the magazine well of a gun that uses and is designed for metal magazines...metal can be much thinner than polymer for the same strength. At least that's my understanding.

Of course Glock mags are mostly polymer (they are metal lined) and of course Glock has a HUGE market share/presence...so it only makes sense that Magpul ventured into pistol mags with Glock.

I don't think anybody would be surprised to see Magpul make pistol mags for some other manufacturers in the future.

 

[TruthTellers]

After I wrote that I realized that most of the single stack CCW guns had metal mags clearly to reduce the size of the mag well as much as possible for those small carry guns.

In that case, Magpul should make more of the extended mags for .40 and .45 cal Glocks. I'd like to see a 30 rd .40 glock mag and some sort of extended mag for .45 Glocks because right now, the largest .45 Glock mag is 13 rounds.